Meet Flex, who is currently the longest serving Police Service Dog (PSD) within Durham Regional Police Service (DRPS) K9 unit.
He has been on 5,003 calls for service during his eight-year career totaling 2,530 operational hours, and has helped tremendously to keep our communities safer, said a police statement.
Flex, sometimes referred to as ‘Flexy’ is a German Shepherd, who was born in the Czech Republic. He was born on June 29, 2015 and he loves playing with a ball on his downtime.
Their most memorable call together was for a missing female in Uxbridge who was possibly in distress. She had been missing for approximately five hours in freezing temperatures. After a one-hour track through the frozen rural area, and travelling more than 1km PSD Flex and D/Cst Handscomb located the female in medical distress. If it were not for this duo finding her, the outcome would have been completely different. Great work in saving a life, said the police.
Next Friday DRPS will show off a new pup is on paw-trol!